A Lesson to Help Bob Hit It Higher

Bob came in for a golf lesson, complaining of hitting his irons so low that he couldn’t get the ball to stop on most of Nashville’s firm Bermuda grass greens.

In this lesson summary, you see how changing Bob’s hip turn and arm depth in his backswing made it possible for him to do the other things that hit the ball higher. Bob enjoyed such success that he emailed later to say how much better his play has been since this lesson.

Transcription:

For Bob Pemberton today looking for
more consistency and height with his

irons the pre the starting swing is on
the right you’re gonna see that the club

path is moving left that’s what that
negative 7.4 means and the attack

angle is down 5.6 it was often down
these are the early swings more than

that and so what we found was that the
club move just really vertical on the

way back and it’s really just because
your arms did all the work you didn’t

have much turning of your hips and so if
your hips don’t turn your shoulders

don’t turn and then now we’re gonna find
that at the top of our swing you know

our left arm is basically blocking out
our neck here yeah so the club only

gonna goes first of all it’s only gonna
go out towards the ball and you’re gonna

see the club really steep and on its way
down yeah it’s coming right now yeah so

what we what we worked on was we needed
to get our hips to turn more and earlier

so that helps you open your hips open
your chest and that brings the club in

more behind you we set up a noodle here
where you’ll see that it’s just barely

outside your biceps alright so we know
that when we get to the top of our

backswing I’m sorry at the top to our
left I’m being parallel we want our

hands to be mid body or basically we
would love in a perfect case in Harry we

want our hands to be instead of here
we’d want him to be there but we made

progress
yeah and now when we get to the top of

our backswing we were able to see our
face a little bit yeah our arms are

behind us so now that arms are behind us
when they go towards the ball they’re

starting from a better spot and now the
club comes in wayshower

now you can see that that left divot
being a lot less Lassner and now we can

get our attack angle to be in down four
instead of six and the ball is launches

way higher so let’s look at these launch
angles well watching goes the same well

I don’t like that for this purposes of
this video but we know we hit a whole

lot higher throughout the day and this
is true for a driver everything

as a last note from a face on
perspective we want our in steps to be

the width of our hips so a little bit
wider anything irons width of our hips

if you’re hitting a driver you can have
like about a balls width between your

instep so you want to be a little bit
wider for the driver good now with the